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• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal beta thalassaemia and other variants >> Interview 21 >> Professional learning: She explains the teaching of some Islamic scholars about the possibility of ending a pregnancy before the soul enters the unbor

Both partners knew they were beta thalassaemia carriers. Second child born with beta thalassaemia major. Mother has had CVS in two pregnancies since, and would terminate the pregnancy if the baby was affected. Video and audio clips read by an actor and recorded in Mirpuri.

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal beta thalassaemia and other variants >> Interview 21 >> Professional learning: She wants diagnostic tests as early as possible in pregnancy, so she could have an early termination if the baby had beta thala

Both partners knew they were beta thalassaemia carriers. Second child born with beta thalassaemia major. Mother has had CVS in two pregnancies since, and would terminate the pregnancy if the baby was affected. Video and audio clips read by an actor and recorded in Mirpuri.

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal beta thalassaemia and other variants >> Interview 13 >> Professional learning: They would have preferred diagnostic testing earlier in pregnancy. Waiting for the results of his carrier screening test to com

Routine pregnancy screening showed she is a carrier of beta thalassaemia, and that he carries haemoglobin E. They had amniocentesis, and the baby was unaffected. They would have had a termination if the baby was affected. Interview mainly in English with some brief discussion in Vietnamese.

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal sickle cell >> Interview 06 >> Professional learning: By the time she realised she was pregnant and had screening and counselling, she was 17 weeks pregnant when she came for her CV

During first pregnancy couple discovered they were both sickle cell carriers. CVS confirmed the baby did not have the condition and was not a carrier.

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal sickle cell >> Interview 01 >> Professional learning: His screening test result was delayed, so they had their counselling appointment without knowing if they were both carriers. Th

His partner had routine screening in pregnancy and found she was a sickle cell carrier, so he also had carrier screening. Results unknown at time of interview. No family history.

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal beta thalassaemia and other variants >> Interview 02 >> Professional learning: When she got a letter saying she was a beta thalassaemia carrier she was terrified. She just wanted to get to the counselling a

Discovered she was a beta thalassaemia carrier from routine screening during pregnancy. She was not aware she was being tested. Partner was tested and is not a carrier.

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Antenatal beta thalassaemia and other variants >> Interview 29 >> She often felt unwell as a child, and was diagnosed with anaemia. At university she discovered she was a beta thalassaemia carrier. (Read by an actor.

Mother discovered as a student she was a beta thalassaemia carrier. When she became pregnant the first time her husband was tested and is not a carrier. Video and audio clips read by an actor.

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• >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Timing and delay >> Timing and delay

Timing and delay 

• Pregnancy & children >> Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia >> Timing and delay >> Timing and delay

Timing and delay